Where did the 'HouseBoy' thread go?

[ifancyashandy]

I went away for a while, was reading from page 25 to catch up and clicked on 'next page and pfft...all gone.

What did I miss?

I have no idea why it was deleted...

Any help, MN?

What happened it just vanished ?? I only nipped to check the footie score !

It was deleted as apparently it wasn't what mumsnet is all about.

Aww I was enjoying that!

What????

But bumsex is what MN is about?

whaT WAS it about then?

It wasn't about anal sex, I suppose, which is much more what mumsnet is about.

was just asking why it was being deleted and pfft.

MNHQ. Please explain why it was deleted, maybe me just being thick but i don't get it. Thanks.

whaaa?? Because 'it's not what MN is all about?'

What does that mean? It was a reasoned (mostly!) debate about politics / semantics and ideologies.... or am I a fule?

i never even saw it??

can anyone summarise it sucinctly (god,love that word)please??

aaaaaawwww you

[huffs]

I only got to page 4, what on earth happened to make it "not what mumsnet is about"??

I thought it was really interesting - the whole idea of employing labour from developing countries and at what rate/under what conditions is very current.

I refer you again to the Libby Purves articles - The Times on Tuesday, I think, if you subscribe. About applying 'western' standards and the unintended consequences of well-meaning (but economically impractical) measures to try to create parity.

In the context she was discussing, she suggested a huge impact on the welfare of workers as western employers (bound by Health & Safety regs, unionised etc) withdrew from employing labour from developing countries, leaving 'local' companies to move in to the market - paying the same or lower rates and without the legal protections.

So not the same point, but similar issues about economic disparity and the terms on which one can trade when economic and living standards and expectations are so different.

I think the one thing we all agreed on, in that thread was that it shouldn't be deleted

It was simply a thread about an expat's domestic staff and whether she could get a visa for him to come over to the UK with the family on their holidays so he could do some work and sightsee. Seemed pretty innocuous to me although I think the thread title could have been thought through a bit more. Only read early posts so not sure how it ended.

I have found the thread very interesting and a look at the sort of topic that often doesn't get looked at on MN. I mean it made a good change from the usual parent and child space bunfights on her. C'mon MNHQ what's really going on?

Eh? Did it descend in to a mahoosive bunfight?

Tiffany is was 28 pages long and raged over the day but in essence it was about

a) the teminology used to describe domestic staff (specifically those who've left their own country of origin and are employed by expats)

and

b) whether having domestic staff (of the above variety) was intrinsically wrong.

T'was very interesting.

I literally just clicked it to be nosey peruse because it had been annoying me being active convos every time i skimmed down.

Either HQ didn't like the way the op had planned to wind people up with her merry pals - and then denied any such thing OR they got in a grump about people being free and frank in the views of exactly what they thought of her....I hope it was the former personally.

Actually one of the more interesting threads that has popped up on here , shame ..

I too thought it was interesting and actually, aside from all the bitching, there were a lot of good points made. I didn't however see it after 4pm so it may have gone downhill from that point.